From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-balloon: do not attempt to release more than available pages
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:06:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CF97F2.2080108@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CEF7BD.3060200@codemonkey.ws>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> Set the target in QEMU to be larger than guest ram size. The config
>> space variable will be set negatively, so guest attempts to release
>> pages from the balloon.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Is an __le32 signed? If so, we should just use an unsigned type.
>
>
That would balloon the guest into oblivion if the same condition happened.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 16:28 [PATCH] virtio-balloon: do not attempt to release more than available pages Marcelo Tosatti
2008-03-05 16:59 ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05 18:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-03-05 18:13 ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05 18:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-05 19:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-03-05 19:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-06 7:06 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-03-05 18:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-05 22:39 ` Rusty Russell
2008-03-08 19:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-03-11 0:26 ` Rusty Russell
2008-03-11 0:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-11 11:54 ` Rusty Russell
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